Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Icahn: Question Isn't Why Would You For Vote Trump, It's Why Wouldn't You Vote For Trump?
Real Clear Politics ^ | November 22, 2016 | Tim Hains

Posted on 11/22/2016 8:06:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Billionaire investor and Trump supporter Carl Icahn speaks with Fox Business Network's Neil Cavuto about the president-elect's proposals to reduce regulations on business and the energy industry, why working people supported Donald Trump, and whether or not he would consider taking a role in the Trump administration.

About Trump's appeal to working people, Icahn said: "The pundits all wonder what happened, but I think it was extremely simple... Think of a middle-class guy working out in the middle west. The real question is not why did he vote for [Trump], but why wouldn't he vote for him?"

"I said to Donald right in the beginning," Icahn continued. "His message was right on. The only one that could defeat Donald was Donald, and he didn't do it, he didn't defeat himself."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics
KEYWORDS: billionaires; hillary; icahn; regulations; trump; trumpagenda; trumptransition
Word.
1 posted on 11/22/2016 8:06:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I said to Donald right in the beginning,” Icahn continued. “His message was right on. The only one that could defeat Donald was Donald, and he didn’t do it, he didn’t defeat himself.”(continued)

He tried to defeat himself because he needed a challenge. It didn’t work!


2 posted on 11/22/2016 8:11:00 PM PST by ari-freedom (The Social Justice War is over and we won!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Exactly, true!

That's what made this so GD frustrating dealing with some FRiends.

'There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know'.

3 posted on 11/22/2016 8:13:13 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think a lot of it has to do with the proportion of people who believe what the MSM is selling, and the proportion who believe in each of the other news sources. Before the internet, the MSM was pretty much all there was at the national level.

Now we have millennials reading far left blogs and going for Bernie. You have a variety of conservative outlets: Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, etc. The MSM still has clout, but not nearly so much. A lot of people just shrug at CNN, etc.

Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich once said that President Clinton was irrelevant. Well, maybe not. Now it seems the MSM is irrelevant. They’ve earned irrelevance.

Hillary was a corrupt cog in a liberal machine that had gone too far. Donald Trump was the right man at the right time to slash the paper tiger.


4 posted on 11/22/2016 8:55:19 PM PST by ChessExpert (It's not compassion when you use government to give other people's money away.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet



5 posted on 11/22/2016 9:09:50 PM PST by onyx (CELEBRATE PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP'S VICTORY DONATE MONTHLY or JOIN CLUB 300!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not Hillary,the rest is yet to be seen,Climate change is not a hoax? Examining Paris Climate treaty?
Is looking now at TOP,going to pick Romney as Secretary of State?
Nixon Haley as UN Ambassador?
Harold Ford Jr. As Transportation Secretary?


6 posted on 11/23/2016 3:23:46 AM PST by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why Wouldn't You Vote For Trump?

Uhhh...He's rich...he's white...it's not his turn...he's not Hillary.

7 posted on 11/23/2016 10:09:41 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson